Essays
… sophistication of the national palate, the flood of soldiers returning home after the end of World War II had a … reflected in an interview for the NEA’s Operation Homecoming documentary: “If you’re a soldier existing under … Metal Jacket,” and “Apocalypse Now”—the end of the war also saw an outpouring of important work by veteran writers, …
… Coolidge. By Claude M. Feuss. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $4.75. Journal as Ambassador to Great Britain. By … Dewey may well become a significant personality in the annals of the party. Certainly the careers and views of these … illustration of the traditional “Coolidge luck.” Harding died in California on August 2, 1923. In surroundings …
… Studies in American Diplomacy History of American Foreign Relations. By Louis M. Sears. New York: Crowell Company. $3.50. The Recent Foreign Policy of the United … The Johns Hopkins Press. $3.00. The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1826. By Dexter Perkins. Cambridge: Harvard University …
Poetry
… of her kiss when the days dragged themselves like doomed soldiers through the Delta. Towns dying, blacks and whites … were set to rumble in downtown McCrory. The Bloods were coming from Little Rock, the Klansmen from the Ozarks. This …
Criticism
… of psychological fiction, Munro champions the value and complexity of the lives of outwardly ordinary people. She … in the desert,” and steals a kiss. When Doree’s mother dies suddenly, she chooses to move in with Lloyd, rather … or all of these at once, depending on the shifting points-of-view of the observers. Munro uses Gothic imagery …
… school with my toes turned in, “Indian fashion.” It was uncomfortable, and anybody who watched probably thought I had … however, already by 1671 20,000 Indians faced 40,000 colonials in southern New England. Against 150,000 settlers in the … Indians faced. Spanish colonists, familiar with the die-off of native peoples in the Caribbean and Latin …